Battle Through the Heavens: Beauties Abound Starting with Yunlan and Her Disciples

251: Section 251Yun Xiancheng’s actions undoubtedly saved the Nalan Family, while also quietly planting a special seed in the heart of the young Nalan Yanran.

”Senior Brother.” Seven or eight-year-old Nalan Yanran already showed signs of her future exquisite Beauty. Today, her long black hair was neatly combed, and she looked at Yun Xiancheng with eyes full of anticipation.

”Yan Ran looks very beautiful.”

The equally young Yun Xiancheng stepped forward, one hand gently resting on her waist while the other tenderly stroked her hair.

Hearing her senior brother’s praise, Nalan Yanran’s small face flushed slightly. Her eyes couldn’t help but blink rapidly, and her fingers restlessly twirled the ends of her hair, appearing quite shy.

A wife must be nurtured from a young age.

Due to mental inertia, he had treated this as the normal battle through the heavens world, and thus hadn’t concerned himself with Xiao Yan’s affairs. Otherwise, Xiao Yan would have long since been brought to the sect to be his childhood sweetheart; why would there have been any need for that business with the broken engagement?

”And now the Pre-battle System has brought me here just to let me review my childhood?” Yun Xiancheng looked at the familiar scenes unfolding before him, unable to help feeling surprised in his heart.

However, this was a good omen.

Is Sect Master Yun Yun my ”immortal”?

Thinking of this, Yun Xiancheng couldn’t help but smile, reaching up to touch his own hair bun. He had kept the style his Master had combed for him back then until now.

In the world of memories, a golden path of light stretched forward, connecting heaven and earth like a bridge. Yun Xiancheng stood on the bridge, watching the scenes—

—of childhood memories with his Master and Yan Ran, a happy smile appearing on his face.

His Master and junior sister ended up living under the same roof as him for the rest of their lives. This was one of the greatest joys of his life.

207 Cai Lin

With these thoughts in mind, Yun Xiancheng stepped forward and walked toward the path of light deep within his memories, arriving at a banquet scene.

That must have been when he was five years old? The Mittel Family held a grand banquet and invited Yun Yun and him to attend.

Back then, he held Master Yun Yun’s hand as they made their entrance under the watchful eyes of the crowd. Afterward, all sorts of praise and compliments surged toward them like a tide. He didn’t care for these superficial flatteries; his gaze darted through the crowd, seemingly searching for someone.

Then, he saw a sister around ten years old. At that time, Ya Fei already faintly exuded a poised and elegant aura, like a newly blooming peony.

He took the initiative to walk over and, with the innocence unique to a child, began chatting with this Sister Ya Fei.

”The seed of our connection with Sister Ya Fei finally bloomed in Wutan City,” Yun Xiancheng smiled slightly, feeling emotional as he looked back at those years.

”Sister, in the future, I will build a palace cast from gold and marry you,” the young Yun Xiancheng had said.

Using his cute appearance to make a promise to an older sister was a benefit even Master Yun Yun hadn’t enjoyed! However, Yun Xiancheng hadn’t expected that Ya Fei would remember those joke-like words for so many years.

In the end, Ya Fei was even the one who understood his possessiveness best, specifically designing those incredibly complicated clothes that left one with absolutely no desire for his wives to wear as their everyday outdoor attire.

”This kind of review of the past feels like a prelude to growth before a major battle,” he mused to himself. He really did have a fight coming up, and the opponent was the Dou Zong Yun Shan—who, at his worst, was still a ten-star Dou Huang.

Even if he broke through to Dou Wang, it didn’t seem like it would play a decisive role. Yun Xiancheng was somewhat puzzled as to why he was being arranged to review the past and make a breakthrough at this time.

Yun Xiancheng continued walking forward as the memory images flashed by. He reached the day three years ago when Nalan Yanran got stuck in the window. He paused to watch for a moment; this was the beginning of the story of these three years.

He continued forward, wanting to see what exactly lay at the end of the memory path. The subsequent memories were of his adventures over these three years, which needed no further elaboration.

However, he stopped at the part involving the Snake-People Clan. He saw a figure standing on the path of light, looking up as if ”watching” his story in the desert.

”Queen?” Yun Xiancheng looked at Medusa, who had transformed into human form, and asked with a hint of curiosity, ”Have you finished watching my memories?” Queen Medusa shook her head, her beautiful eyes narrowing with a touch of pride. ”No, I can only see your stories in the desert. Other than that—”

—I’ve been trapped here, unable to move.”

She folded her arms, her tone carrying a hint of dissatisfaction, though she lacked her usual queenly demeanor.

”And so I stood here watching your desert memories for quite a while. I didn’t realize what a ’good’ boy you were—coming to my Snake-People Tribe, kidnapping my Yue Mei and my guards, and even wanting to kidnap me?”

It seemed the Queen had thoroughly absorbed this part of his memory. Now, she was naturally preparing to give Yun Xiancheng a piece of her mind.

Hearing this, Yun Xiancheng showed no fear. He knelt on one knee, reached out, and gently took her hand. With sincerity in his eyes, he asked, ”Then, Your Majesty, what do you think?”

”I am not like Yue Mei or Hua She Er; I am not so easily tricked away. Naturally, I am unwilling.”

She rolled her eyes, her tone carrying a hint of tsundere, but she didn’t pull her arm away. Instead, she continued, ”However... there’s no need to call me Queen. Just call me Cai Lin.”

She paused, her tone softening slightly. ”Although you kidnapped my Yue Mei and Hua She Er, you did indeed help the Snake-People Clan.”

Cai Lin hesitated for a moment before finally nodding gently and saying in a low voice, ”On that point, thank you...” ”Well, the Snake-People Clan is like my own kin. Helping the Snake-People is helping myself,” Yun Xiancheng said seriously. Cai Lin looked at him, stunned for a moment, before slowly saying, ”Still as wicked-hearted as ever.”

Hearing this, Yun Xiancheng nodded frankly. ”Cai Lin is right.”

Cai Lin snorted and turned her face away, pulling her hand from Yun Xiancheng’s grasp. Her tone carried a hint of stubbornness. ”I won’t be some lowly concubine. There’s no chance for us.” ”Cai Lin, I must correct one of your views.” Yun Xiancheng did not give up; he simply pitched his ”harem philosophy,” his tone sincere and serious.

”Everyone entrusts their lives to me, and I alone shoulder them. You only need to stay by my side as my companions.” ”Companions are not divided by status; in my embrace, everyone is equal.”

After pitching it for a while, he finally said slowly, ”In short, for everyone’s happiness, a little sacrifice on my part is no problem.”

Yun Xiancheng’s ”harem theory” truly opened Cai Lin’s eyes. She had never seen such a... brazenly shameless person.

”Starting a harem has turned into a joke about you sacrificing yourself to protect everyone? You lecher!” she couldn’t help but scold.

Yun Xiancheng nodded, frankly admitting, ”The core is simply those six words: ’You love me, I love you.’”

The core of his theory was that he would be the one to bear the burden and responsibility, shouldering the lives of his entire harem alone. In his view, since that was the case, the sisters were naturally equal, with no distinction between superior and inferior.

Cai Lin, however, did not believe such a theory. In her view, how could there be a harem without a clear hierarchy?

An empress rising by stepping on other concubines, with concubines fighting to the death—that was how it was written in books.

And... even if they were equal on the surface, the love of the harem’s Master would still vary. How could it be possible to love everyone without distinction? It was a concept full of holes.

Cai Lin stopped talking to Yun Xiancheng and turned her face away again. Yun Xiancheng wasn’t in a hurry either, just quietly watching her.

After a long while, Cai Lin’s slitted eyes stole a glance at Yun Xiancheng.

Yun Xiancheng’s eyes met her peeking gaze. She hurriedly looked away again.

After another while, she stole another look at Yun Xiancheng. Yun Xiancheng’s gaze was as calm as the surface of a lake. Cai Lin realized that Yun Xiancheng truly believed this. Fine... she wouldn’t argue about these things anymore.

Even as she thought this, her tone softened. ”Um... please help me. I don’t want to stand here anymore.” Yun Xiancheng nodded and took her hand once again.

Feeling the warmth of his palm, a familiar sense of comfort welled up in Cai Lin’s heart.

In fact, she had felt this way back when Yun Xiancheng had charged into the Green Lotus Core Flame. For the first time in many years, her emotions had fluctuated so violently because of a single person. So much so that, in front of him, she didn’t act much like a queen.

That boy was the first person in the world to see this non-queenly side of her personality. Only he was qualified to be treated this way by Cai Lin.

”He is different. But there’s no chance for us...” Cai Lin thought to herself.

The figure from that day within the Green Lotus Core Flame was already etched into Cai Lin’s heart. But even so, because of her own awkwardness, she could only watch like this, her mind filled with a myriad of thoughts as she looked at Yun Xiancheng’s back.

She allowed him to lead her as they continued deeper into the path of light within his memories.

Deep within the bridge was a teleportation portal glowing with white light. Yun Xiancheng held Cai Lin’s hand and stepped into the portal without hesitation.

The moment he entered the portal, a gentle whisper reached his ears: [Comprehension unlocked, Talent unlocked]. Yun Xiancheng felt a stir in his heart as he listened to his system’s whisper.

He discovered that since leaving Wutan City, the system had changed from its initial text-only prompts into a gentle female voice.

This female voice sounded somewhat familiar, a bit like Xun’er, yet not quite the same. But that didn’t matter.

In the haze, a hand also touched Yun Xiancheng’s head.

It was as if a Beauty was mimicking the way Sect Master Yun Yun used to stroke the top of Yun Xiancheng’s head in his memories.

He could no longer care about who was taking advantage of him; at this moment, Yun Xiancheng began his advancement. He subconsciously sat cross-legged as his Dou Qi churned.

He felt the Dou Qi within his body surging, as if undergoing a metamorphosis.

Like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, a pair of pure white wings, like clouds, slowly spread out behind him.

The aura on his body seemed to have been sublimated, and as if it were a natural progression, he crossed the boundary between Dou Ling and Dou Wang, breaking through to the Dou Wang Realm.

208 Xiancheng is dead, I have no heart to distinguish right from wrong.

”You old fool! What have you done!?”

The instant Yun Xiancheng’s figure disappeared, Sect Master Yun Yun was the first to ”break down.”

Her eyes were blood-red as she glared at Yun Shan, no longer caring for her poise as a Sect Master, and directly cursed at him.

Then, her figure moved, and the longsword in her hand instantly unsheathed, wrapped in sharp Dou Qi. Without holding back in the slightest, she slashed toward Yun Shan.

The moment Sect Master Yun Yun acted, Yun Ziyi moved beside her in perfect coordination, spreading her wings to assist the attack. The two Dou Huang experts joined forces, carrying overwhelming fury as they struck at Yun Shan simultaneously.

Yun Shan was also surprised by Yun Xiancheng’s sudden disappearance, and a flicker of unease crossed his heart, but there was no time for him to think now.

He flicked his sleeves, and a surge of Dou Qi violently exploded outward with him at the center, colliding with the Dou Qi of Sect Master Yun Yun and Yun Ziyi, producing a deafening explosion.

A massive shockwave spread frantically in all directions. Ordinary disciples watching were blown over, many coughing up blood and collapsing. The entire Cloud Mist Sect instantly fell into chaos.

Shadow’s figure slowly rose from a circular shadow, her expression looking extremely grim.

”The Young Master wasn’t hit.” She was incredibly confident; she and Green Savage had perfectly blocked Yun Shan’s previous attack. But since he wasn’t hit, where did Yun Xiancheng go?

Green Savage’s expression was also very ugly at this time. They, two Dou Huang experts, had actually watched helplessly as Yun Xiancheng vanished into thin air in broad daylight. This...

It was simply unbelievable.

The two women exchanged a glance, both seeing the same shock and fury in each other’s eyes. They no longer hesitated and flicked their figures, joining the fray with cold killing intent.

A giant green snake materialized out of thin air, carrying a foul wind as it snapped violently at Yun Shan’s legs.

Simultaneously, from the shadow beneath Yun Shan’s feet, a pitch-black sharp sword shot out silently, aiming straight for his brain.

Sect Master Yun Yun held her longsword, and a dazzling pillar of green light erupted from the tip of the blade, aimed directly at Yun Shan’s face. At the same time, Yun Ziyi’s massive purple lion claw, wrapped in violent Dou Qi, swiped ruthlessly at Yun Shan’s body.

At this moment, facing the siege of two Dou Zongs and two Peak Dou Huangs, Yun Shan had no way to dodge and could only endure these four sharp attacks. Yun Shan let out a great shout, his internal Dou Qi circulating frantically, forming a thick Dou Qi shield around him in an attempt to withstand this storm-like assault. Another massive explosion rippled outward with Yun Shan as the center.

Without suspense, Yun Shan was struck by these four attacks, sending blood spraying as his figure flew backward like a broken kite, eventually crashing heavily into his place of seclusion, kicking up clouds of dust.

Meanwhile, the surrounding disciples were also blown away by the massive impact, with many fainting directly. The entire Cloud Mist Sect was in a state of chaos, with cries of sorrow rising and falling.

Gu He seized this opportunity, his Dou Qi wings suddenly spreading as he tried to escape amidst the chaos. He was terrified; the power surrounding Yun Xiancheng was actually this strong!

However, a beam of green sword light, fast as lightning, shot over and instantly severed his left hand at the wrist. Gu He let out a scream and fell to the ground with difficulty, turning his head to look at the person walking over with a murderous aura.

”Did I say you could leave?” Sect Master Yun Yun’s face was as cold as frost, her eyes filled with cold killing intent.

Gu He looked at Sect Master Yun Yun’s cold eyes and trembled, hurriedly saying, ”Sect Master Yun Yun! I am willing to offer three sixth-grade medicinal pills in exchange for my life!” Sect Master Yun Yun said nothing, only slashing out with her longsword again, severing Gu He’s right arm as well.

”Cough, cough...” Gu He coughed violently, blood overflowing from his mouth. He used the most basic and final plea for mercy, ”I am willing to be a Pill Slave for the Cloud Mist Sect for thirty years! Spare my life! My value is far greater alive than dead!”

However, Sect Master Yun Yun was unmoved. In her eyes, there was only cold killing intent, without a shred of pity.

”Since Xiancheng is dead, I have no heart to distinguish right from wrong,” Sect Master Yun Yun’s voice was cold, as if it came from the nine netherworlds. ”Go... and be buried with him!”

As the words fell, the longsword in Sect Master Yun Yun’s hand flashed, a cold light swept across, directly slitting Gu He’s throat. This Sixth-Grade Alchemist who was famous throughout the Jia Ma Empire had completely fallen, his eyes wide open, unable to die in peace.

At the same time, from where Yun Shan had fallen, a thick black mist rose into the sky, carrying a cold and evil aura, as if connecting to another world. Yun Shan was covered in blood and in a wretched state, stumbling out of the black mist with a face full of terror and anger.

”Yun Yun! You have destroyed the thousand-year foundation of the Cloud Mist Sect!” While berating Sect Master Yun Yun, he turned back to look at the churning black mist.

”Lord Vulture Protector, these people... are the souls this junior offers to you!” Yun Shan said respectfully to the black mist, his tone carrying a hint of flattery. ”Jie jie...” A mysterious person dressed in a black robe drifted out of the black mist, letting out a hair-raising laugh. He looked down at Yun Shan from above, his voice...

...hoarse and cold, ”You want us to help you slaughter these anomalies?”

”Two Dou Zongs, two Dou Huangs...” Vulture Protector’s voice carried a hint of playfulness, as if evaluating the value of his prey. ”Yun Shan, you’ve stirred up quite a mess.”

Hearing Vulture Protector’s less-than-friendly voice, Yun Shan’s heart tightened, and he hurriedly said, ”Please rest assured, Lord Vulture Protector! In the future, the territory of the Jia Ma Empire will forever provide soul bodies for you!”

Hearing this, Vulture Protector finally nodded with satisfaction, ”You know how to look at the big picture. You are indeed worthy of being a Sect Master.”

Hearing the conversation between Yun Shan and Vulture Protector, Sect Master Yun Yun’s heart, already furious due to Yun Xiancheng’s disappearance, exploded like a volcanic eruption. She finally understood why Yun Shan would act this way; he had long since colluded with the Hall of Souls!

”You old fool! How dare you say I destroyed the Cloud Mist Sect?! You are the one who destroyed our foundation!” Sect Master Yun Yun cursed angrily, her voice echoing through the mountains, filled with endless grief and disappointment.

Yun Shan turned his head, a sinister smile on his face—a smile filled with distortion and madness—and asked in return, ”If you had obediently stopped and accepted my arrangements, how could things have developed to this point?”

”It’s your stubbornness that caused my Yun Lan Mountain to become like this! Do you not have a single shred of remorse?!” He pushed all the responsibility onto Sect Master Yun Yun and the others, as if he were the victim.

Upon hearing this, not to mention Sect Master Yun Yun, even Yun Ziyi felt disgusted to the extreme. She couldn’t help but curse in a low voice, ”Truly hypocritical.”

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran stood beside Little Lioness Yun Yan, looking at Yun Shan’s act of twisting the truth. Fury burned in their hearts, and a sense of nausea welled up. Nalan Yanran’s eyes were wide with anger, completely unable to accept such words: ”Clearly they were the ones who made trouble first, wanting Master to get lost. We were unwilling, and now it’s our fault?”

Beside her, Xiao Yan looked at Yun Shan’s face and felt incredibly disgusted. She whispered, ”Fortunately, I met Senior Brother.”

209 Sword Dance Dou Technique

In the unfamiliar space, Yun Xiancheng finished reflecting on those before him and fell into deep thought.

Amidst the brilliant light, his figure was ethereal as he danced with an invisible sword in his hand.

The moment he broke through to the Dou Wang Realm, his mind was clear, as if it had been washed clean.

Past experiences surged like a continuous stream of nourishment, providing him with endless inspiration and transforming into the prototype of sword moves. ”A Drunken Night in Wutan, Falling at the Red Pavilion.”

The experience in Wutan City was a dreamlike beginning for him.